Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ma glances towards the head of the table . |
| 2 | ‘ It starts in the head . |
| 3 | They need to be the product of shared work between head , governors , staff and , as far as possible , parents , but the main responsibility lies on the head . |
| 4 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 5 | SCENE : The Dining-Room — Eight Months Later Pa stands at the head of the table . |
| 6 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 7 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 8 | The well known city of Luzern , possibly one of the country 's greatest tourist attractions , lies at the head of the north-west arm , and the small town of Fluelen , gateway to the Gotthard Pass route , lies 38km ( 24 miles ) away at the end of the long south-east arm which is called the Urner Lake after the name of the Uri canton in which it lies . |
| 9 | Then , after a pause , the G cell turns towards the head , while the C cell extends towards the tail ( see figure ) . |
| 10 | And tape goes past the head at about seven and a half inches a second . |
| 11 | Although which occurs at the head of the relative clause , its syntactic function is actually as object of the verb ( catch ) of the that-clause which is subordinate to the relative clause . |
| 12 | The head , supported on a tasselled pillow , wears a frilled cap and the winding-sheet again hangs from the head in neat folds , running the length of the body underneath . |
| 13 | Only later did Sukarno reveal the full venom of his animosity ( ‘ While I was taking hammer blows on the head his entire underground effort can be summed up by saying he sat quietly and safely away somewhere listening to a clandestine radio ’ ) . |
| 14 | Headaches are congestive and throbbing ; blood mounts to the head ; better ( > ) cold and rest , worse ( < ) heat , motion and lying down ; often they have to sit up and apply pressure to the head and a cold application . |
| 15 | Under this regime , the most solid nerves can not resist for long ; the moment arrives where the blood mounts to the head ; where fever burns the body and where the nerves , exhausted , become incapable of reacting . |
| 16 | Maybe she was alright , maybe things looked worse than they were — even min or cuts to the head bleed a lot . |
| 17 | The search for Dennis Garvey has been stepped up after a post mortem revealed his wife had died from hammer blows to the head . |
| 18 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 19 | Our road turns round the head of the loch to join the A.896 from Shieldaig . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it will be appreciated that , for example , in the census , the main obligation for accuracy rests on the head of the household , who may intentionally or unintentionally provide false information . |
| 21 | The first scrambling to be found is in Birchin Clough , which rises at the head of the trio of reservoirs above the village of Greenfield . |
| 22 | The first person goes round the outside and pats on the head those sitting saying ‘ duck ’ each time . |
| 23 | Morris administered his sures and sure sures in a soothing tone , like pats on the head for an importunate child . |
| 24 | Next you take a lead dog and put on its harness of padded nylon ; this goes over the head and the front legs poke through stitched loops . |
| 25 | Binding off has ‘ give ’ and ensures a round neck goes over the head . |
| 26 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 27 | Delivery from the pump in this instance is divided into two tubes ; one goes to the fountain in the pool ( 3 ) , and the other goes to the head of the waterfall ( 4 ) . |
| 28 | He goes to the head 's office straight after assembly . |
| 29 | Work for an era that needed it spelt out ; perhaps Lijn 's recorded voice expresses from the head while a red laser beam cuts sharply through smoke that generates from the base of a black lacquered body . |
| 30 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |